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BEING HAPPY 



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Edited by 

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ON THE TRAIL OF HAPPINESS 

#J^f HE most crowded Trail in all the world is that which is 
%J supposed to lead to Happiness. We all travel it whether 
we acknowledge the fact or not As the flower seeks the sun, 
as the bee measures a straight line to the nearest honey, so the 
heart of man pursues Happiness. This passion for Happiness 
is as old as man, and even our National Constitution recognizes 
the "pursuit of Happiness" as an inalienable right. 

But it takes more than the Constitution to make us happy. 
The poets and seers of all the ages have tried to solve the riddle 
and discover to us the things that bring Happiness to the human 
heart. It is not wealth, or health even, though the latter will 
help. It is not congenial work, nor yet the love of countless 
friends. It is not merely serving others, though Emerson once 
said that "The only way to be happy is to make others so." 

Millions of people have worn deep the Trail of Happiness; 
they have lived and struggled and died, seeking this Holy 
Grail. Not one, however, has yet won the perfect prize. 

But we are not discouraged! For the Trail is full of sweet 
surprises, and we are convinced, as Robert Louis Stevenson has 
said, that "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." 
Happiness is undoubtedly the most impregnable fortress within 
The City of Our Ideals. We know that we shall never be 
able to capture the fortress itself, yet we travel hopefully, for 

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we are sure that some day we shall at least stand within the 

suburbs of our Sacred City — and the suburbs are very pleasant! 

The editor hopes that this "Little Book of Happy Thoughts" 

will help to make the journey shorter, the burden lighter and 

the heart happier for all those upon the trail. If it helps ever 

so little to solve the riddle, "What is Happiness?" it will have 

fulfilled a large mission. So let's just try being happy as we jog 

along together, picking every flower possible by the wayside, for 

they will not bloom for us again, 

— E, 0. G. 



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TALK HAPPINESS 

*^JALK happiness. The world is sad enough 
^■^ Without your woe. No path is wholly rough. 
Look for the places that are smooth and clear, 
And speak of them to rest the weary ear 
Of earth; so hurt by one continuous strain 
Of mortal discontent and grief and pain. 

Talk faith. The world is better off without 

Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt — 

If you have faith in God, or man, or self, 

Say so; if not, push back upon the shelf 

Of silence all your thoughts till faith shall come; 

No one will grieve because your lips are dumb. 

Talk health. The dreary, never-ending tale 

Of mortal maladies is worn and stale 

You cannot charm, or interest, or please 

By harping on that minor chord, disease. 

Say you are well, or all is well with you, 

And God shall hear your words, and make them true. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
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[APPINESS grows at our own firesides, and is not to be 
picked in strangers' gardens. —Douglas Jerrold 

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IF you want to be happy yourself, make others happy. If 
you want to make others happy, be first happy yourself. 
There you have the whole formula. Ossian Lang 

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HCQUIRE the habit of expecting success, or believing in 
happiness. Nothing succeeds like success; nothing makes 
happiness like happiness. —Lilian Whiting 

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-#^ON'T never pay t' go lookin' fer trouble — -it's tew easy 
^*J t' find. There ain't no sech thing 's trouble 'n this world 
'less ye look fer it. Happiness won't hev nuthin' t' dew with a 
man thet likes trouble. 'Minnit a man stops lookin' fer trouble 
happiness '11 look fer him. —Irving Bacheller 

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XLL not confer with sorrow 
Till tomorrow; 
But Joy shall have her way 

This very day. __ Tt Bt Aldrich 

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OBEY; be loyal; do your work and do it well. This 
is the message of Nature, and the man cannot be long 
unhappy who imitates Nature's examples. 

—Newell Dwight Hillis 

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J ATE used me meanly and I looked at her and laughed, 
«E* That none might know how bitter was the cup I quaffed ; 
Along came Joy and paused beside me where I sat, 
Saying, "I came to see what you were laughing at!" 

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 

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*W**Z APPINESS comes not from the power of possession, but 
J-C from the power of appreciation. Above most other things 
it is wise to cultivate the powers of appreciation. The greater 
the number of stops in an organ, the greater its possibilities as 
an instrument of music. _. fj t jp Sylvester. 



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HE art of being happy lies in the power of extracting 
happiness from common things. 

—Henry Ward B etcher 

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RUE happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, 
but in their worth and choice. % en Jonson 



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| HAT ripeness is to the orange, what sweet song is to 
the lark, what culture and refinement are to the intel- 
lect, that happiness is to man. —Newell Duight Hillis 

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BAPPINESS, is a condition attained through worthiness. 
To find your life you must lose it. It is the law and 
the prophets. —Lilian Whiting 

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\^'i E were made to radiate the perfume of good cheer and 
^A/ happiness as much as a rose was made to radiate its 
sweetness to every passerby. 

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RULES FOR HAPPINESS 

30METHING to do, 
Some one to love, 
Something to hope for. 



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your thoughts. —Marcus Aurelius 

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'OR every happy smile, the world 
Whirls on its way with less of care. 



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O have joy one must share it.- 
Happiness was born a twin. 



— Byron 
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ryou ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find 
it as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her 
own nose all the time. —Josk B iU' xngs 



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NEROSITY is the investment from which we clip the 
coupons of happiness. —Four Track News 



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LESSED are the happiness makers. 

— Henry Ward Beecher 



"I^ALF the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of 
JL—J happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, 
and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in 
serving others. —Henry Drummond 



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HAT do we live for if it is not to make life less diffi- 
cult for others? —George Eliot 

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BE cheerful. Give this lonesome world a smile. 
We stay at longest but a little while. 
Hasten we must, or we shall lose the chance 
To give the gentle word, the kindly glance. 
Be sweet and tender — that is doing good ; 
'Tis doing what no other kind deed could. 

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*2^f HE unpardonable sin in a mother is gloom. If you would 
\J influence your children for good, let your presence radiate 
smiles. Let your children hear you laugh often; but laugh 
<with them, never at them. —Gladys Harvey-Knight 

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'fgLO You, my cheerful friend!— To You! who seem to be an 
%J exquisite architect, forever building up the castle of 
happiness out of all the losses and crosses and wrecks and 
ruins that fate may throw about you: — to you who can always 
see the silver lining to every cloud, who can conceal your 
sorrows and share your joys and laugh and sing, and be con- 
tent, and still keep up the fight till life's rugged journey ends. 
Here's to you! —Joseph D. Houston 

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BAPPINESS is the only good. The place to be happy is 
here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy 
is to make others so. —Robert G. Ingersoll 



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ARMONY at the center radiates happiness throughout 
the whole sphere of life." 

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ONE makes one's own happiness only by taking care of the 
happiness of others. —Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 

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^TVAKE one person happy each day and in forty years you 
1*^ have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time 
at least. 

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IS it not the first duty of those who are happy to tell of 
their gladness to others? All men can learn to be happy; 
and the teaching of it is easy. ^-Maurice Maeterlinck 

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*J^HERE is no satisfaction comparable to that of making 
V^ one's neighbor happy. — Mme. d'Epinay 

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£^\ ACH day still better others' happiness, 
^=4 Until the heavens, enjoying earth's good hap, 
Add an immortal title to your crown ! 

— Shakespeare 

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HE discovery of a new dish makes more for the happi- 
ness of man than the discovery of a star. 

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IF I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness 
is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes 
a philosophy of life, — my testimony to the creed of optimism is 
worth hearing. My optimism rests on a glad belief in the pre- 
ponderance of good and a willing effort always to co-operate 
with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power 
God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, 
and make that best a part of my life. 



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OT what we have, but what we use; 
Not what we see, but what we choose — 



These are the things that mar or bless 
The sum of human happiness. 

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' %\ f£ communicate happiness to others not often by great 
\^/ acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence 
of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with 
their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize 
with ours. —James Freeman Clarke 

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|QfTRENGTH is success, Strength to be, strength to do, 
fc*J strength to love, strength to live. It is not happiness, it 
is not amusement, it is not content. These will come but they 
are not the object. —Edward Everett Hale 

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^Kp be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not 
^^ of how we end, of what we want and not of what we 
nave - — Robert Louis Stevenson 

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*W~jLFE is for character, it is to be lived and lived happily, 
J* ^% and everything should be put aside that is not essential 
to the one thing, namely, more life, more thoughts and higher, 
more hours of noble emotion and deeper ones, more friendships 
and purer. —Newell Dvnght Hillis 

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LAUGH is worth one hundred groans in any market. 

— Charles Lamb 

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BAPPINESS does not come in boulders generally, but in 
pebbles, so I think we all ought to be thankful when we 
receive such a pebble ; and how much more delightful to give 
one ! —Gail Hamilton 

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-# B ^ON'T fail to make your smile your children's last memory 
^J as they depart for school. A ruffled spirit as a send-off 
puts the tune out of joint for the entire day. Don't forget 
that you are, or ought to be, your children's ideal of all that is 
perfection, and that it is your duty to live up to those ideals in 
every possible way. Not an easy task, but wonderfully inspir- 
ing- —Mrs. G. E. Jackson 



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placid face and a gentle tone will make my family more 
happy than anything else I can do for them. 

— E. T. King 

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HERE is no abiding happiness away from effort. 

— /, Brierley 

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HARACTER is the basis of happiness, and happiness is the 
sanction of character. 



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APPINESS is purely a matter of reciprocity. He who is 
happiest is he who gives the most happiness. 

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ris a matter of economy to be happy, to view life and all 
its conditions from the brightest angle. It enables one to 
seize life at its best. —Horatio IV. Dresser 



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APPINESS is a perfume you cannot pour on others with- 
out getting a few drops yourself. 



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HE secret of happiness is not In doing what one likes, 
But in liking what one has to do. 

— Barrie 

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<^/HERE is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of 
\J being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous bene- 
fits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, 
or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the 
benefactor. —Robert Louis Stevenson 



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CHEERFUL comrade is better than a waterproof coat 
and a foot-warmer. —Henry Van Dyke. 

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CHEERFULNESS and content are great beautifiers and are 
famous preservers of youthful looks. 



— diaries Dickens 

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are not simple enough to be happy and to render 
others so. We lack the singleness of heart and the 



self-forgetfulness. —Charles Wagner 

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^r^^UE happiness is to no place confined, 
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HE foundation of abiding happines is one's chosen life 
vrork. —Newell Dwight Hillis 



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ris the German thinker, Carl Hilty, who has s<t aptly 
written that in our frenzied search after happiness in this 
twentieth century, "the art of life is lost in the pace of living." 

— G. H. K. 



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F one would be happy, let him forget himself and go 
about making some one else happy. —Lilian Whiting 

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BEFORE we can bring happiness to others, we must first 
be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide with us 
unless we confer it on others. —Maurice Maeterlinck 

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^V\AY each year be happier than the last, and not the mean- 
*^S est of our brethren or sisterhood debarred their rightful 
share in what the Great Creator formed them to enjoy. 

— Charles Dickens 

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O be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the un- 
rest of unhappiness. —Maurice Maeterlinck 

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sfZL HE human heart is large enough to contain any amount 
W of happiness. __r. jf Robertson 

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~W*\ APPY, happier far than thou 
**— K, With the laurel on thy brow, 

She that makes the humblest hearth 

Lovely to but one on earth. 

— Felicia Dorothea He mans 

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AVE you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happi- 
ness of others. —Arsene Houssaye 



THE HAPPINESS OF HELPFULNESS 

£T TEVENSON speaks of "the great task of happiness." But 
h^ happiness is not a task. It is not evei an occupation. It 
is a quality of life. Happiness depends on helpfulness. That's 
the reason joy is social. Helpfulness keeps happiness because 
it adds to the area of affection. People are not happy when they 
seek after happiness. They become steeped in happiness when 
they undertake to promote the joy of others. 

—Walter Williams 

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BAPPINESS depends on helpfulness as health depends on 
air and food. They who are intent on ministration, 
looking for opportunities to be of service to their neighbors, 
find the dullest places interesting. The unselfish person lives 
in an environment of happiness, surrounded by those whom he 
has helped to be happy, and who in return are endeavoring to 
bring happiness to him. , . George Hodges 

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*r~f ET any clever woman simply take it to heart to make 
-'"*** everybody about her as happy as she can, and the result 
will always be wonderful. 

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ryou can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the 
steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on 
to happiness and friendship. —Maltbie Babcock 

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INDITE THE BEST THOUGHTS 

E secret of happiness is to want the best things and to 
want them very much. p t q Peabody 

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IDEALS FOR THOUGHTS 

AT man is the happiest who has the most interesting 
things to think about. —Timothy Dvnght 

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OBEYING THE HEAVENLY VISION 

W can't choose happiness. We can only choose whether 
we will indulge ourselves in the present moment or 
whether we will renounce that for the sake of obeying the divine 
voice within us — for the sake of being true to all the motives 
that sanctify our lives. I know this belief is hard but I have 
felt that if I let it go forever, I should have no light through 
the darkness of this life. George Eliot 

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OUR happiness to-day is to so enormous an extent in our 
own hands. A man is happy when he thinks he is. 
And why should I not this morning think so? Why should I be 
gloomy when I can be glad? Here inside me is a force that 
can drive away the clouds. Our will power, which can call up 
good thoughts and disperse bad ones; which can fall back on 
gracious memories as a refuge from present evils; which, in a 
word, can make its own weather — our will power, if we will 
only use it, is our philosopher's stone, that turns all things into 
gold. The more we give it to do, the better it works. 

— J. Brierley 

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/■j^HERE is a beautiful and an ugly way in which to say 
%Jf almost everything, and happiness depends upon which 
way we take. You can upset a person for the whole day by 
the harsh way in which you may call him in the morning, or you 
may give him a beautiful start by the cheeriness of your greet- 
ing. So not only in words but in all the little, common 
courtesies and duties of life, think of the beautiful way of 
doing each. —Delia L. Porter 

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•■gUST to fill the hour— that is happiness. Fill my hour, ye 
J gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, 
"Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone" — but rather, "I have 
lived an hour." —Emerson 



JUST BEING HAPPY 

BHERE is no difference between one person and another 
more characteristic and noticeable than the facility of 
being happy. Some seem pierced with half a hundred windows, 
through which stream warmth, light and sounds of delight. 
It comes in at the eye and at the ear, at the portals of smell, 
taste, and touch, in things little and great. 

—Henry Ward Beecher 
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IF all could realize the power of even a small pleasure, how 
much happier the world would be! And how much longer 
bodies and souls both would bear up under living! Sensitive 
people realize that often it happens to them to be revived, 
kindled, strengthened to a degree which they could not de- 
scribe, by some little thing— some word of praise, some token 
of remembrance, some proof of affection or recognition. 

—Helen Hunt Jackson 

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"fj LESSED are they who are pleasant to live with. 

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4 IT LITTLE thought will show you how vastly your own 
/^ happiness depends on the way other people bear them- 
selves toward you. Turn the idea around, and remember that 
just so much arc you adding to the pleasure or the misery of 
other people's days. —George S. Merriam 

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1p|° dwell happily together, they should be versed in the 
*»* niceties of the heart, and born with a faculty for willing 
compromise. -Robert Louis Stevenson 

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*rtL HERE is nothing like putting the shine on another's face 
^^ to put the shine on our own. Nine-tenths of all loneli- 
ness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with 
personal interests. Turn more of these selfish interests into un- 
selfish ones, and by so much we change opportunities for di3- 
heartenment into their opposite. __ w c g ann€tt 

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HAPPY WAYS OF DOING THINGS 

r f!L HERE is always a best way of doing everything, if it be 
V^ but to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of 
doing things, each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated 
and hardened with usage. . . . You cannot rightly train one 
to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of 
whom that manner is the natural expression. Nature forever 
puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to 
be done for effect. -Emerson 

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J^T^ENTAL sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual 
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— Christian D. Larson 



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COLD your cup! 
Joy will fill it, 
Don't spill it, 
Steady, be ready. 

Good luck! 



-Henry van Dyke 



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*"f*L HE happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy 
^J at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just 
finds them, —Ossian Lang 

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^"IHO that define it, say they more or less 
\A/ Than this,— that happiness is happiness? 

— Pope 

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TftL HE great secret of happiness is to study to accommodate our 
^^ own minds to things external rather than to accommo- 
date things external to ourselves. —Dug aid Stewart 

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BE sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do not 
expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear 
gray-brown glasses. —Charles JV. Eliot 



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OW thou sorrow and thou shalt reap it, 
Sow thou joy and thou shalt keep it. 

— Richard Watson Gilder 
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&2L LL these are elements of happiness — love of nature, ac- 
S~*+ quaintance with the wide earth, congenial intercourse 
with superior minds, and abiding friendships. 

—Charles W. Eliot 

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IF thou workest at that which is before thee, following right 
reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing any- 
thing else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, if 
thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou 
holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied 
with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic 
truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt 
live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent 
thls * —Marcus Aurelius 

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IF your whole world is upside down and joy and cheer are 
far from you, romp for an hour with a six-year old child 
and see if its laughter and faith are not veritable sign posts 
on The Road to Happiness. —Gladys Harvey-Knight 

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^rw^OULD ye learn the road to Laughtertown, 

\a/ O ye who have lost the way? 
Would ye have young heart though your 

hair be gray? 
Go learn from a little child each day, 
Go serve his wants and play his play, 
And catch the lilt of his laughter gay, 
And follow his dancing feet as they stray; 
For he knows the road to Laughtertown, 
O ye who have lost the way. 

—Katherine D. Blake 

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rpays to be happy. Happiness is not a luxury, but a 
necessity. The beneficial effect of mental sunshine on 
life, ability, strength, vitality, endurance, is most pronounced. 

— Christian D. Larson 

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rthe long run, people are generally apt to get what they 
look for; those who are seeking trouble usually find it. A 
happy disposition is therefore to be cultivated, 

— Henry D. Chapin 

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<^^HERE are two things which will make us happy in this 
V? Hfe, if we attend to them. The first is, never to vex 
ourselves about what we cannot help; and the second, never to 
vex ourselves about what we can help. Cfiatfield 

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HE happy have whole days, and those they use; 
Th' unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. 

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I FIND the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled 
far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in 
the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, dis- 
contented people. A man should make life and nature happier 
to us, or he had better never been born. Emerson 

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^jf^HE measure of a man's happiness will be the number and 
%mJ strength of his friendships among people young and 
people old, people rich and people poor, people representing 
professions and those representing the occupations. 

—Newell Dwight Hillis 

*APPINESS appears to be a state that comes easiest when 
unsou g ht - -Henry D. Chapin 

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|ECAUSE God is doing the best He can for all. in the 
very darkest hour of life, happiness and tranquillity are 
possible for all alike. -Newell D<wighl HUH, 

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*^^ HE best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy 
W/ as is rightfully possible to-day. —Charles IV. Eliot 

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^TZL KE domestic affections are the principal sources of human 
%*J happiness and well-being. —Charles W. Eliot 

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T OR to what can happiness be wisely sacrificed but to 
#t* greater happiness? —John Hawkesworth 

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IT is better than a sermon to hear my wife Prue talk to 
the children; and when she speaks to me it seems sweeter 
than psalm singing; at least, such as we have in our church. 
I am very happy. —George William Curt'u 

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BE glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and 
to work and to play and to look up at the stars. 

— Henry van Dyke 
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Vv i HAT we need is, not more cultivation, but a recognized 
W habit of enjoyment. ^./jgnes Repplier 

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T^ APPINESS is the most accommodating of all things. It 
>*=€ will come to a cottage as soon as to a palace. You need 
never wait for any outward pomp to come. 

As the sunshine of the Almighty will shine through a 
simple vine as richly as upon the velvet of a king or upon the 
gilded dome of a temple, so happiness falls with equal sweet- 
ness upon all whose minds are at peace and in whose hearts 
flow the good thoughts and good sentiments of life. 

— -David Swing 

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JOY is the very distilled elixir of energy and inspiration. 
It is the most invincible force. It is the power which is 
able to conquer and prevail. —Lilian Whiting 

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IF a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God 
made all men to be happy. Epictetus 

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'm f OU are very sensible how much you have rambled after 
t^l happiness and failed. Neither learning, nor wealth, nor 
fame, nor pleasure could ever help you to it. Which way is 
it to be had, then? By acting up to the height of human nature. 
And how shall a man do this? Why, by getting a right set of 
principles for impulses and action. Marcus Aurelius 

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JUST BEING H A P P Y 

>w^SERY is the exception, happiness is the rule. No rational 
SJLc nian ever heard a bird sing without feeling that the 
bird was happy, and that if God made that bird He made it 
to be happy, and He takes pleasure in its happiness, though no 
human heart should ever share in its joy. 

— Charles KingsUy 
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ryou want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, 
you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes 
through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When 
one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. 

—Joint Ruskin 

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^»^HE only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself 
%y with asking much about was happiness enough to get his 
work done. 

Not "I can't eat!" but "I can't work!"— that was the bur- 
den of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the 
one unhappiness of a man — that he cannot work. 

— Thomas Carlyle 

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BAPPINESS is not like a large and beautiful gem, so un* 
| common and rare that all search for it is in vain, all 
efforts to obtain it hopeless; but it consists of a series of smaller 
and commoner gems, grouped and set together, forming a pleas- 
ing and graceful whole. _ Samuel Smiles 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

HND now you are to ask yourself if, when all is done, 
it would not have been better to sit by the fire at home, 
and be happy thinking. To sit still and contemplate— to re- 
member the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by 
the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and 
everywhere in sympathy, and yet content to remain where 
and what you are — is not this to know both wisdom and virtue, 
and to dwell with happiness? Walking Tours 

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EOW it blesses the street, a face laughing all to itself! 
As soon as one sees it, the corners of his mouth begin 
to twitch, too, with the God's gift. Eyes light, strangers greet 
knowingly, hearts soften, spirits rise, lives brighten, and the 
world grows friendly, w r ithin the circle of the merry echo. 

Educate your laugh, if you can, to ring often and sweet, 
that you may be able to radiate widely your pleasure and 
health. If we may judge by the abundance of the glad sound, 
and its rapid radiation around every source of it, a good 
time must be part of the established success of Providence. 

—William C. Gannett 

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*^f HE happiest man is he who best understands his happi- 
%J ness, and he who understands it best is he who knows 
profoundly that his happiness is only divided from sorrow 
by a lofty, unwearying, humane and courageous view of 
*^ e - — Maurice Maeterlinck 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

ris only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come 
by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. 
We can only have the highest happiness by having wide 
thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as 
well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings 
so much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by 
its being what we would choose before everything else, be- 
cause our souls see it is good. George Eliot 

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*f**P £* ve fc a PP^ness and to do good, there is our only 
^^ law, our anchor of salvation, our beacon light, our 
reason for existing. All religions may crumble away; so 
long as these survive we have still an ideal, and life is worth 
living. —Amiel 

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HERE'S lots of fun in the world if a fellow only knows 
how to find it. —Elliott Flower 

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*Jfilp make any one happy is strictly to augment his store 
^J of being, to double the intensity of his life, to reveal 
him to himself, to ennoble him and transfigure him. Happiness 
does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. 
The man who doubts it can never have watched the first gleams 
of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves — 
sunrise itself is a lesser marvel. Amiel 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

APPINESS is not solitary; it joys to communicate, it 
loves others, for it depends on them for its existence. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson 

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IS not making others happy the best happiness? To illu- 
minate for an instant the depths of a deep soul, to cheer 
those who bear by sympathy the burden of so many sorrow- 
laden hearts and suffering lives, is to me a blessing and a 
precious privilege. There is a sort of religious joy in helping 
to renew the strength and courage of noble minds. We are 
surprised to find ourselves the possessors of a power of which 
we are not worthy, and we long to exercise it purely and 
seriously. -—Amiel 

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*|T^[FE is short, and we never have too much time for glad- 
■ J 1 ^ dening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark 
journey with us. O be swift to love, make haste to be kind! 

— J mi el 
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^^KERE can be nc real and abiding happiness without 
^^ sacrifice. Our greatest joys do not result from our ef- 
forts toward self-gratification, but from a loving and spon- 
taneous service to other lives. Joy comes not to him who seeks 
it for himself, but to him who seeks it for other people. 

— H. IV. Sylvester 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

IN such a world, so thorny, and where none 
Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, 
Without some thistly sorrow at his side, 
It seems the law of w r isdom, and no sin 
Against the law of love, to measure lots 
With less distinguish'd than ourselves; that thus 
We may with patience bear our moderate ills, 
And sympathize with others suffering more, 

—W. Cowper 

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WIE cannot have happiness until we forget to seek for 
\a/ it. We cannot find peace until we enter the path of 
self-sacrificing usefulness. ^jj enr y ^^ Dyke 

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ONE of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A 
little less time than you want." 
That means always to have so many things you want to 
see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for 
all you think you would like to get done before you go to 
k ec *- — Helen Hunt Jackson 



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ILIAN WHITING says that no one can be unhappy who 
is filled with interest in the happiness of others. 



JUST BEING HAPPY 

"^£0 be happy and make others happy is the highest duty 
^^ and privilege in life. Ill temper is the chief of crimes 
and misdemeanors. Ill temper is contagious, and a person has 
no more right to go about scattering germs of bad temper than 
he has to propagate smallpox or the measles. "Sunshine from 
all and for all" is our home motto, and instant quarantine is 
the penalty for a failure to live up to it. I believe a happy 
disposition contributes more to success in a life career than 
any other single element. —Dorothy Storrs 

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*^\0 one has any more right to go about unhappy than he 
A-X has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to himself, to his 
friends, to society, and to the community in general, to live up 
to his best spiritual possibilities, not only now and then, once 
or twice a year, or once in a season, but every day and every 
hour - —Lilian Whiting 

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EAPPINESS, at least, is not solitary; it joys to communi- 
cate; it loves others, for it depends on them for its 
existence ; it sanctions and encourages to all delights that are 
not unkind in themselves. The very name and appearance of 
a happy man breathe of good-nature, and help the rest of us 
t0 live » — Robert Louis Stevenson 

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happiness. —Henry D. Chapin 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 



*fZL HE world is so full of a number of things, 
\J I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson 

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BAPPINESS is not in the possession of a fortune; happi- 
ness is in the self-reliance and industry that makes a 
fortune. —Newell Dwight Hillis 

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ONE'S birthright is happiness. It is as freely offered as 
the sunshine and the air. It is a spiritual state, and 
not conditioned by material limits. Lilian Whiting 



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O be strong 

to be happy! 

— Henry W. Longfellow 

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[APPINESS is inward, and not outward; and so it does 
not depend on what we have, but on what we are. 

— Henry van Dyke 

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*n^O believe and go forward is the key to success and to 
\J happiness. —Lilian Whiting 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 



'jf^HE first requisite for enduring happiness is in having 
V^ work to do in which one believes. 

—Henry D. Chapin 

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PPINESS is the natural flower of Duty. 

—Phillips Brooks 
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*TZL HE unhappy are always wrong; wrong in being so, wrong 
^>J in saying so, wrong in needing help of others. 

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BE PLEASANT until ten o'clock in the morning, and the 
rest of the day will take care of itself. 

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^XHERE is no happiness, then, but in a virtuous and self- 
^■^ approving conduct. Unless our actions will bear the test 
of our sober judgments and reflections upon them, they are not 
the actions, and, consequently, not the happiness of a rational 
bein g- —Franklin 

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OU have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled 
that of being pleasant. —Charles Buxton 



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JUST BEING HAPPY 

•"^f HAT happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which 
\sJ we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment 
of philosophy. Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but 
in being content with what w T e possess. He who wants little 
always has enough. —Zimmerman 

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Y\0 NOT forget that even as "to work is to worship," so 
<*J to be cheery is to worship also; and to be happy is the 
first step to being pious. —Robert Louis Stevenson 

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'APPINESS is a very beautiful thing, — the most beautiful 
and heavenly thing in the world. Lilian Whiting 

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RESOLVE 

*f*Lp create happiness in myself and others. 
V^ I will keep a strong body for the work I have to do ; 
a loving heart for those about me ; a clear mind for all truth, 
whose recognition brings freedom; a poised, unconquerable soul 
for the ideal whose champion I declare rnyself, 

And I will possess a faith mighty enough to rout anxiety, 
ride over difficulty, challenge hardship, smile through grief, 
deny failure, see only victory, looking to the end ; by which 
hopeful assurance now attuned, I am at peace with myself, the 
world, and the Infinite. 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 



RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE 

'^^HREE ounces are necessary, first of patience, 
^^ Then of repose and peace ; of conscience 
A pound entire is needful : 
Of pastimes of all sorts, too, 

Should be gathered as much as the hand can hold; 
Of pleasant memory and of hope three good drachms 
There must be at least. But they should moistened be 
With a liquor made from true pleasures which rejoice the heart. 
Then of love's magic drops a few — 
But use them sparingly, for they may bring a flame 
Which naught but tears can drown. 

Grind the whole and mix therewith of merriment an ounce 
To even. Yet all this may not bring happiness 
Except in your orisons you lift your voice 
To Him who holds the gift of health. 

— Margaret of Navarre (1500) 

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*^%LEASURE, like all other truly precious things in this 
^^ world, cannot be bought or sold. If you wish to be 
amused, you must do your part toward it; that is the essential. 

— Charles Wagner 

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*pLO LIVE, we must conquer incessantly, we must have the 
^^ courage to be happy. — Amiel 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

PEAKING of happiness, Joseph Jefferson once said: "My 
boys sometimes get discouraged and I say to them: 'Go 
out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something 
to anybody, if it's only a pair of woolen stockings to a poor 
old woman; it will take you away from yourself and make you 
happy!'" 

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I AM happy in having learned to distinguish between owner- 
ship and possession. Books, pictures, and all the beauty 
of the world belong to those who love and understand them — 
not usually to those who possess them. All of these things 
that I am entitled to I have- — I own them by divine right. So 
I care not a bit who possesses them. I used to care very much 
and consequently was very unhappy. 

— James Howard Kehler 



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RUE happiness (if understood) 
Consists alone in doing good. 

— Somervtle 

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*1 *Jl HERE is an idea abroad among moral people that they 
^^ should make their neighbors good. One person I have 
to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much 
more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him 
happy— if I may. —Robert Louis Stevenson 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

^^AKE Joy home, 

^J And make a place in thy great heart for her; 
Then will she come, and oft will sing to thee, 
When thou art working in the furrows; aye, 
Or weeding in the sacred hour of dawn. 
It is a comely fashion to be glad — 
Joy is the grace we say to God. 

—Jean'lngelonv 

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'7^HE great lesson to be learned is that happiness is within 
^J us. No passing amusement, no companionship, no ma- 
terial possession can permanently satisfy. We must hoard up 
our own strength. We must depend upon our own resources for 
amusement and pleasure. We must make or mar our own tran- 
quillity. To teach them this is the preparation for life which 
we can give our children. 



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HE real test of character is joy. For what you rejoice 
in, that you love and what you love, that you are like. 

— Henry wan Dyke 



JUST BEING HAPPY 

jJJTOMEWHERE on tne great world the sun is always shining, 
F*J and just so sure as you live, it will some time shine on 
you. The dear God has made it so. There is so much sunshine 
we must all have our share. Myrtle Reed 

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IS NOT making others happy the best happiness? 
— Amiel 

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THE SECRET OF A HAPPY DAY 

I TAKE it that in a happy day— and all life should be 
of one piece — there must be such a proportion between 
labor and rest or pleasure as shall leave a balance in favor of 
labor, so that one may have a permanent sense of achievement, 
without which there can be no solid sense of happiness, because 
it justifies human life. — T T. Hunger 

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BLESSED are the happiness makers! Blessed are they that 
take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the 
courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle! 

— Henry Ward Beecher 

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HE first step toward happiness is to determine to be 
nappy. — George Hodges 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

<2^HE best way to secure a happy home is to be happy your- 
^^ self. One really happy person is enough to create a 
delightful, pervasive atmosphere of happiness. To have a 
happy home, set the example of seif-sacrifice, love, service, of 
ministering rather than expecting to be ministered unto — and 
see what comes of it! 

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rl have faltered more or less 
In my great task of happiness; 
If I have moved among my race 
And shown no glorious morning face; 
If beams from happy human eyes 
Have moved me not; if morning skies, 
Books, and my food, and summer rain, 
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: — 
Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take 
And stab my spirit broad awake ; 
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I, 
Choose Thou, before that spirit die, 
A piercing pain, a killing sin, 
And to my dead heart run them in! 

—Robert Louis Stevenson 



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HOME in which no laughter is heard is only a house, 
after all ; nay, worse, it is a tomb. q fj Knight 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

Ww VE MAY be sure that cheerful beliefs about the unseen 
W world framed in full harmony with the beauty of the 
visible universe, and with the sweetness of domestic affections 
and joys, and held in company with kindred and friends, will 
illuminate the dark places on the pathway of earthly life and 
brighten all the road. —Charles W. Eliot 

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OF all good gifts which ever came out of the wallet of the 
Fairy Godmother, the gift of natural gladness is the 
greatest and best. It is to the soul what health is to the body, 
what sanity is to the mind, the test of normality. 

— Bliss Carman 

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*1-CAPPINESS must not be left too much to outside condi- 
<*— % tions. The ultimate result of life will be ourselves — 
nothing more nor less. It is, after all, what we are that largely 
makes for contentment. --Henry D. Chapin 

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ARTHLY happiness is not dependent on the amount of 
one's possessions or the nature of one's employment. 

—Charles W. Eliot 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

HE most completely lost of all days is the one on which 
we have not laughed. 

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APPINESS is rarely absent; it is we that know not its 
presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck 

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"F IT wasn't for the optimist, the pessimist would never 
k know how happy he wasn't. 



>*2^f HE secret of happiness is— something to do. 
^^ — John Burroughs 

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INSTEAD of seeking happiness by going out of our place, 
our skill should be to find it w r here we are. 

— Henry Ward Beecher 
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*^\OT only is it every man's privilege to be happy, it is his 
M**X duty, his manifest obligation. Happiness is the condition 
of his higher achievements and his higher usefulness. It is the 
exhilaration of the highest energy, and lends wings. 

— Lilian Whiting 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

^E WHO has learned to laugh at himself is a near neighbor 
to happiness. __#r m. Strickler 

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jgJBIDING happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; 
***A% * * * all may live above the troubles of life; 
* * * worry is a poison and happiness a medicine. 

-—Newell Dvjight Hillis 
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BEING happy— being appreciative, being grateful — is not 
altogether a matter of temperament. Nor is it dependent 
upon outward circumstances. Not at all. Qssian Lang 

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*WT"AV1L only in a great To-Day, whose happy thoughts weave 
-i^ golden hours. —Josephine Rollett Wright 

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EAPPY indeed the man who can say that he owes no man 
anything. —Newell Dwight Hillis 

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^T\ORE hearts than we dream of enjoy our happiness and 
U-C share our sorrow. —George William Curtis 

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E three arch-enemies of happiness: Hurry, Worry, and 
Debt. —Newell Dwight Hillis 

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I BELIEVE in gittin' as much good outen life as you kin— \ 
not that I ever set out to look for happiness; seems like 
the folks that does, never find it. I jes' do the best I kin where 
the good Lord put me at, an' it looks like I got a happy feelin' 
in me 'most all the time. Mrs. Wiggs 

•f\0 NOT worry; eat three square meals a day; say your 
■ *J J prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your diges- 
tion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other 
things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, 
my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. 

— Abraham Lincoln 

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KEERFULNESS accompanies patience, which is one of the 
main conditions of happiness and success in life. 

— Samuel Smiles 
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^ ^ *RERE are two fundamental necessities for a happy life, 
^J namely, a useful occupation for mind and body, and an 
outlet for unselfish affection. — Henry D. Chapin 



JUST BEING HAPPY 

GET In the habit of looking for the silver lining in the 
cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at 
it rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help 
you over many hated places. 



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Y forgetting ourselves in thinking of the feelings of others 

we gain happiness. —Henry D. Chapin 

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IS wonderful indeed how much innocent happiness we 

thoughtlessly throw away. _ sir John Lubbock 

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^WF^IVE on the sunny side; count et erything joy; believe 
JH most thoroughly that all things aie working for greater 
and greater good to you, and be determined to prove it in 
greater and greater measure. —Christian D. Larson 

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[APPINESS is not solitary, but social ; and so we can 
never have it without sharing it with others. 

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GRATEFUL heart is the mainspring of happiness. 

— Ossian Lang 

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APPINESS is a pursuit to be followed as tirelessly as the 
pursuit of wisdom or of wealth. 

— Newell Dwight Hillis 

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*#%OW happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution 
AmX of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant 
P° oL —7. M. Good 

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JOY is not in things, it is in us, and I hold to the belief 
that the causes of our present unrest, of this contagious 
discontent spreading everywhere, are in us at least as much as 
in exterior conditions. —Charles Wagner 

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**^VOW the heart is so full that a drop over-fills it; 
JLJ We are happy now because God wills it. 

— Lo-vjrll 

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BHERE is no happiness in having and getting, but only in 
giving. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the 
pursuit of happiness. __/?. jp. Gunsaulus 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

*TZL O make much of little, to find reasons of interest in 
^**r common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoy- 
ments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely 
and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own 
happiness. —Henry Ward Beecher 

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*fJL HE truly happy man is the man whose habits impose upon 
^-^ him the thinking of higher thoughts, dreaming the noble9t 
dreams, exulting in the deepest joys. 

—Newell Dwight Hillis 

BELIEFS we must have and must act on, and they are sure 
to affect profoundly our happiness in this world. How 
to treat our old beliefs and choose our new ones, with a view 
to happiness, is in these days a serious problem for every 
reflective person. —Charles W. Eliot 

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' W^OULD you be happy, then from out your store 

\AS Carry good cheer to others; and the more 
You give the more there still remains to give; 
Cheer dies by hoarding, but when given doth live. 

— Christopher Bannister 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

AN is not simply a worker. If he is to be happy, he 
must also play. —Newell Dwight ffillis 

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[ APPINESS, rightly understood, is the most desirable and 
the most important thing in life. 

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HAT thou art happy, owe to God. That thou continuest 
such, owe to thyself. 

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I CANNOT think but that the world would be better and 
brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happi- 
ness as well as the Happiness of Duty. 

— Sir John Lubbock 

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IN HIS own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, 
only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on 
duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to 
know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Some- 
how or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he 
must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell 
what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

H HAPPY man or woman is a better thing to find than a 
five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good- 
will; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle 
had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove 
the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing that that — 
they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Livable- 
ness of Life. —R ^ ert Louis Stevenson. 

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*TK£> be a painter does it suffice to arm one's self with a 
\mJ brush, or does the purchase at great cost of a Stradivarius 
make one a musician? No more, if you had the whole para- 
phernalia of amusement in the perfection of its ingenuity, would 
it advance you upon your road to happiness. But with a bit of 
crayon a great artist makes an immortal sketch. It needs talent 
or genius to paint; and to amuse one's self the faculty of being 
happy, whoever possesses it, is amused at slight cost. 

— Charles Wagner 

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OLD proverb attributed happiness to him who expects 
little and thereby avoids disappointment. 

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'jprfSRE'S hoping that on Fortune's face 
JLJ| You'll never see a frown, 
And that the corners of your mouth 
May never be turned down. -Luanda May 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

*f\0 ART, it may be said, was ever perfect, and not many 
JL." noble, that has not been mirthfully conceived. And no 
man, it may be added, was ever anything but a wet blanket 
and a cross to his companions who boasted not a copious spirit 
of enjoyment. —Robert Louis Stevenson. 



' J W MAN who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen 
jZm+ (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot 
forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and 
how by a stroke or two of fate — a death, a few light words, a 
piece of stamped paper, or a womans' bright eyes — he may be 
left in a month destitute of all. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson 



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ALK happiness! Why, a well beggar has a better time 

of it than a sick king any day. Amber 

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— Lilian Whiting 

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O OWE an obligation to a worthy friend is happiness. 

— Pierce Chanon 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

6ENTLENESS and cheerfulness, these come before all 
morality; they are the perfect duties * * * If your 
morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do 
not say "Give them up," for they may be ail you have; but 
conceal them like vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better 
and simpler people. —Robert Louis Stevenson 

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TOR Yesterday is but a Dream, 
«*■** And To-Morrow is only a Vision ; 
But To-Day, well lived, 
Makes every Yesterday 
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ABOR, the symbol of man's punishment; 
Labor, the secret of man's happiness. 

— Jam es M outgo m cry 

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F YOU are happy, it is largely to your own credit. If 
► you are miserable, it is chiefly your own fault. 

—William DeWitt Hyde 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

IT IS the initial business and purpose of life to be happy; 
and, lest the moralist should object to this as a frivolous 
proposition, it may be added that it is that true happiness 
synonymous with holiness — which is meant — the quality of 
happiness that manifests itself in abounding energy and good- 
will. —Lilian Whiting 

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IT IS one of the paths to success and happiness in life, or 

rather it is success and happiness in itself, to be swiftly 
responsive to the angel when he draws near. 

— Lilian Whiting 

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[APPINESS is neither within us nor without us. It is the 
union of ourselves with God. Pascal 

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HAPPINESS, like health, is the normal state; and when this 
is not felt, the cause should be looked for just as in 
illness the cause should be scrutinized and removed. 

— Lilian Whiting 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

|APPINESS is a great love and a much serving. 

— Olive Schreiner 

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V^APPINESS and goodness, according to canting moralists, 
-^■■C stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was 
never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is 
never in our own hands; we inherit our constitutions; we 
stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built 
as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness, and 
so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may 
have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a 
disease more painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not 
meant to help us. It is not even its own reward, except for 
the self-centred and — I had almost said — the unamiable. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson 

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GOD has given us tongues that we may say something 
pleasant to our fellow-men. 

— Heinrich Heine 

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*^^HE happiest heart that ever beat 
^^ Was in some quiet breast, 
That found the common daylight sweet, 
And left to Heaven the rest. 

— John Vance Cheney 

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JUST BEING HAP P Y 

TF a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle 
-** he should remain. It is a revolutionary preceot; but 
thanks to hunger and the workhouse, one not easily to be 
abused; and, within practical limits, it is one of the most in- 
contestable truths in the whole Body of Morality. Look at 
one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you 
He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of 
activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous 
derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from 
all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet 
slippers and a leaden inkpot; or he comes among people 
swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous 
system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work. 
I do not care how much or how well he works, this fellow is 
an evil feature in other people's lives. They would be hapoier 
if he were dead. «„» . r . „ 

— Kobert Louis Stevenson 



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HE happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no 
history. _ 

— George Eliot 



*jp£ ALK of the happiness of getting a great prize in the 

*** lottery! What is that to opening a box of books? The 

joy upon lifting up the cover must be something like that which 

we shall feel when Peter, the porter, opens the door upstairs, and 

says, "Please to walk in, sir." o ,? 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

^|VY DEAR ROBERT,— -One passage in your Letter a little 
mJH displeased me * * * You say that "this world to 
you reems drained of all its sweets!" At first I had hoped 
you only meant to insinuate the high price of Sugar! but I am 
afraid you meant more. O Robert, I don't know what you call 
sweet. Honey and the honeycomb, roses and violets, are yet in 
the earth. The sun and moon yet reign in Heaven, and the 
lesser lights keep up their pretty twinklings. Meats and drinks, 
sweet sights and sw T eet smells, a country walk, spring and 
autumn, follies and repentance, quarrels and reconcilements, 
have all a sweetness by turns. So good humor and good 
nature, friends at home that love you, and friends abroad that 
miss you— you possess all these things, and more innumerable: 
and these are all sweet things. You may extract honey from 
ever}'thing; do not go a-gathering after gall * * * I as- 
sure you I find this world a very pretty place. 

—Charles Lamb to Robert Lloyd 



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to hope for, are what make happiness in life. 

—Dr. Chalmers 



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7<JL% life; it is a sign of its vigor, and a source of its con- 
tinuance. — John Ruskin 

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^VsfE of the greatest arts in life, and one of the most neg- 
V^ lected, is that of finding happiness in little things. 

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' J WLL real and wholesome enjoyments possible to man 
^JU have been just as possible to him, since first he was made 
of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him 
chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms 
set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, 
to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that 
make men happy. —John Ruskin 

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*OOK within. Within is the fountain of happiness, and 
it will ever bubble up if thou wilt but dig. 

— Marcus Aurelius 

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I USED to think it was great to disregard happiness, to 
press to a high goal, careless, disdainful of it. But now 
I see that there is nothing so great as to be capable of happi- 
ness — to pluck it out of each moment; and, whatever happens, 
to find that one can ride as gay and buoyant on the angry, 
menacing, tumultuous waves of life as on those that glide and 
glitter under a clear sky; that it is not defeat and wretchedness 
which come out of the storms of adversity, but strength and 
calmness and joy. _^ # Gilchrist 

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JUST BEING HAPPY 

BOW soon a smile of God can change the world ! 
How we are made for happiness — how work 
Grows play, adversity a winning fight ! 

— Robert Browning 
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WV Y ONDROUS is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether 

\A/ past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts, to 

be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous — a spirit all 

sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright. 

— Thomas Carlyle 
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hoping and loving much. —Lamennais 

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V*/ countless infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial 
deling. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 



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RE you awfully tired with play, little girl; 
Weary, discouraged and sick? 
I'll tell you the loveliest game in the world — 
Do something for somebody, quick! 

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QHEERINESS is a thing to be more profoundly grateful 
for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever ac- 
complished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness, is 
deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can 
create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a 
few years the worid will never suspect that it was not an 
hereditary gift. —Helen Hunt Jackson 

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JOY does not happen. It is the inevitable result of certain 
lines followed and laws obeyed, and so a matter of 
character. —Maltbie D. Babcock 



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T is an everlasting duty — the duty of being brave. 

— .Thomas Carlyle 

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'F you want to be happy, do not try to live more than one 
t day at a time. 

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JOY is the mainspring in the whole round of everlasting 
Nature; Joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of 
the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns 
from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant spaces not seen 
by the glass of the astronomer. Schiller 

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OWER dwells with cheerfulness. 

— Emerson 

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IT IS a happy thing for us that this is really all we have 
to concern ourselves about— what to do next. No man 
can do the second thing. He can do the first. 

— George Macdonald 

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'APPY is the man who sees 
The stars shine through his cypress trees. 

— -Lowell 

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nature as the instinct of life itself. 



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—Newell Dwight Hillis 

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finally issue from self by the portal of happiness know infinitely 
wider freedom than those who pass through the gate of sadness. 

— Maurice Maeterlinck 



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lr"/£T us hope that one day all mankind will be happy 
JL-4 and wise; and, though this day never should dawn, to 
have hoped for it cannot be wrong. And, in any event, it is 
helpful to speak of happiness to those who are sad, that thus 
at least they may learn what it is that happiness means. 

— Maurice Maeterlinck 

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^f%P NOT keep the alabaster box of your love and friend- 
JkJ ship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their 
lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while 
their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled 
and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they 
are gone, say before they go. —G eorge w. C hi Ids 

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yw^NKIND are always happier for having been happy. So 
11^ that if you make them happy now, you make them happy 
twenty years hence by the memory of it. 

—Sidney Smith 



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